Cheap Residential Proxies — $1/GB, 200+ Countries
Cheap residential proxies don't have to mean recycled, abused IPs. Residential Basic runs on its own pool of real ISP-assigned home addresses in 200+ countries, from $0.80/GB, with country, state, city and ASN targeting and rotating and sticky sessions included.
What Are Cheap Residential Proxies?
A cheap residential proxy is a real home IP address offered at a budget price per gigabyte. With Residential Basic, traffic still exits through genuine ISP-assigned household connections, so targets see an ordinary visitor, not a datacenter range. Basic is a separate pool from Premium, not a cut-down copy of it: it targets by country, state, city and ASN across 200+ countries, while Premium has its own location catalog and pool filters for speed, quality and pool size.
Residential Basic vs Premium: What Actually Changes?
Residential Basic and Residential Premium are separate pools. Both support rotating and sticky sessions, speak HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and are managed from the same dashboard and REST API. Basic costs from $0.80/GB with country, state, city and ASN targeting and sub-500ms typical response times — right for SEO rank tracking, price monitoring, content verification and light scraping. Premium, from $2.50/GB, has its own location catalog (country with region and city, or country with ISP) and pool filters for maximum pool size, speed or quality. Start on Basic; if a target works better on the Premium pool, add a Premium plan from the same dashboard.
What Can You Do with Residential Basic?
Budget residential bandwidth shines on steady, repeatable jobs: tracking search rankings across countries, monitoring competitor prices, verifying that content and ads render correctly per market, feeding SEO tools, and collecting public data from sites that block datacenter IPs. Because sessions can stay sticky, it also handles logins and multi-step flows. At $0.80/GB you can afford to run these tasks continuously instead of rationing bandwidth — the typical Basic user runs daily monitoring jobs that would be uneconomical on premium pricing.
How Much Does It Cost?
Plans are pure pay-per-GB with no subscriptions: $50 for 50 GB, $100 for 100 GB ($1.00/GB), $450 for 500 GB ($0.90/GB) and $800 for 1,000 GB — $0.80/GB at the top tier, with traffic valid for 90 days on the 50 and 100 GB plans and 360 days on 500 GB and 1 TB. Every plan includes all 200+ countries with state, city and ASN targeting, rotating and sticky sessions, unlimited concurrent connections and API access. If you're comparing providers, check the effective rate at YOUR volume: many advertise a headline rate that only applies to multi-terabyte commitments.
Free trial: 100 MB on us
Create an account and activate the free trial from your dashboard — 100 MB of Residential Basic traffic, valid 5 days, no card required. Benchmark success rates on your own targets before paying.
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Why these are cheap without being nasty
$5 to find out
The smallest plan is 5 GB for $5. No sales call, no annual contract, no 100 GB minimum just to unlock the advertised rate.
Real ISP-assigned home IPs
Basic has its own pool, separate from Premium, made of ISP-assigned home connections: targets see an ordinary household visitor, and country, state, city and ASN targeting cost nothing extra.
Nothing extra to buy
Country, state, city and ASN targeting, rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 and unlimited concurrent sessions are included. Cheap providers usually charge for at least one of these.
Cheap residential proxies: how the prices really compare
Headline prices hide the catch — the cheapest per-GB rate usually needs the biggest upfront plan. Here is the entry price next to what you actually have to spend to get it:
| Provider | Entry price / GB | Minimum spend | Geo-targeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuantumProxies Basic ($0.80/GB at 1 TB) | $1.00 | $5 · 5 GB | Country · State · City · ASN |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $5 · 5 GB | Country (city/ASN extra) |
| Evomi | $0.49 | $49.99 · 100 GB | Country · State · City · ISP |
| Oxylabs | $6.00 | $30 · 5 GB | Country · State · City · ZIP |
| IPRoyal | $7.00 | $7 · 1 GB | Country · State · City |
Public list prices and targeting options from each provider's own pricing page, 25 July 2026, excluding limited-time promo codes. Entry price is the advertised per-GB rate on the smallest plan you can buy — Evomi's $0.49/GB, for instance, requires a $49.99 monthly plan.
What people run on the cheap tier
Budget residential IPs are the right tool for steady, unglamorous work — the jobs that need to look residential but do not need premium routing.
Price monitoring
Track competitor prices across regional storefronts on a fixed monthly budget.
SEO & rank tracking
Pull localized search results from 200+ countries without paying premium per-GB rates.
Ad verification
Check how campaigns render to real users in each market, at a cost that scales with volume.
Dev & QA testing
Test geo-gated flows and localization from a real residential IP before you ship.
Built for developers
One gateway host — everything else is controlled from the proxy username: country, state, city, ISP, rotation and session lifetime. Copy a snippet and you're live in under a minute.
- Ready-to-run code samples
- Full REST API for automation
- Endpoint generator in the dashboard
- Works with any HTTP or SOCKS5 client
Works with your stack
Standard HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 means zero lock-in: plug QuantumProxies into scraping frameworks, antidetect browsers and automation tools without adapters.
Pay with crypto, card or PayPal
Crypto friendly
300+ cryptocurrencies accepted, including the major coins and stablecoins.
- Bitcoin BTC
- Ethereum ETH
- Tether USDT
- USD Coin USDC
- Solana SOL
- BNB
- TRON TRX
- Litecoin LTC
- XRP
- Toncoin TON
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- Monero XMR
Card payments
Pay by card with Visa or Mastercard.
PayPal
Pay with your PayPal account.
Get your first proxy in minutes
Create an account, top up and generate proxies straight from the dashboard. Pay per GB, no subscription, and geo-targeting is included on every plan. No subscription required — pay per GB and top up whenever you need to.
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Technical Specifications
| Protocols | HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS5 (TCP and UDP) |
|---|---|
| Authentication | Username:Password or IP Whitelist |
| Geo-Targeting | 200+ countries · state, city & ASN |
| Session Types | Rotating (per-request) or Sticky |
| Concurrent Sessions | Unlimited |
| Bandwidth | Pay-per-GB from $0.80/GB |
| Response Time | <500 ms |
| Proxy Format | host:port:username:password |
| API Access | REST API for proxy management |
| Dashboard | Real-time usage tracking |
| Uptime | 99.9% guaranteed uptime SLA |
Residential vs Datacenter vs ISP vs Mobile vs IPv6 Proxies
Every proxy type trades off trust, speed and cost differently. Here is how our five networks compare, so you can match the proxy type to the job.
| Proxy type | IP source | Best for | Detection risk | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | Real home ISP connections | Web scraping, ad verification, geo-restricted content | Very low | From $2.50/GB |
| Residential Basic | Home ISP connections, its own pool | Light scraping, SEO tools, price monitoring | Low | From $0.80/GB |
| Datacenter | Cloud and datacenter servers | High-volume scraping of low-protection targets | Moderate | From $0.50/GB |
| ISP (static residential) | ISP-registered IPs on datacenter lines | Account management, long sessions, sneaker drops | Very low | From $2.50/IP |
| Mobile | Real 4G/5G carrier networks | Social media, app testing, the toughest targets | Lowest | From $2.50/GB |
| IPv6 | Massive IPv6 subnets | Bulk operations on IPv6-ready websites | Low on supported sites | From $0.20/GB |
All plans include HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support, username:password or IP-whitelist authentication, and the same dashboard and REST API.
Residential Basic Proxies FAQ
What are Residential Basic proxies?
Residential Basic is our lowest-priced residential proxy plan: real IP addresses that internet providers assign to home connections, billed per GB of traffic. You choose the exit country among 200+ when you generate the proxy, narrow it to a state, a city or an ASN if you need to, pick a rotating or sticky session, and connect over HTTP or SOCKS5.
How much do Residential Basic proxies cost per GB?
Plans start at $5 for 5 GB, and the price per GB drops as the plan grows, down to $0.80/GB on the 1 TB plan. There is no subscription: each plan is a one-off bandwidth package, valid from 30 days on the 5 GB plan up to 360 days on the 500 GB and 1 TB plans.
Is there a free trial of Residential Basic?
Yes. Every new account can activate a free trial of 100 MB of Residential Basic traffic, valid for 5 days, from the dashboard after a one-time SMS phone verification. No credit card is needed, so you can test your own targets before you buy a plan.
Are Residential Basic proxies rotating or sticky?
Both, at the same price per GB. By default every request leaves from a new residential IP, which spreads large crawls across the pool. When a login, a cart or a multi-step form needs the same address, choose a sticky session when you generate the proxy.
Do Residential Basic proxies support SOCKS5?
Yes. Every plan works over HTTP and SOCKS5 at the same price per GB, with no extra fee for SOCKS5. You can authenticate with a username and password, or add your server's IP address to the whitelist and connect without credentials. Over SOCKS5 the proxies can also carry UDP traffic, for DNS, QUIC, VoIP or games: switch on UDP in the generator, or set udp to true in the API. Your client needs SOCKS5 UDP support.
Which countries can I target with Residential Basic?
Residential Basic covers 200+ countries, and you can narrow the exit to a state, a city or an ISP network (ASN) from the generator's location list. You pick the location when you generate the proxy and it goes into the proxy username, for example USER-country-us for the United States. Every location costs the same per GB, with no per-location surcharge.
How do I buy Residential Basic proxies?
Create a free account, choose a Residential Basic plan on the Plans page and pay by card, PayPal or crypto. Then generate the proxy string in the dashboard, with the country and a rotating or sticky session, and paste it into your scraper, browser or SEO tool.
What is the difference between Residential Basic and Residential Premium?
They are separate pools. Residential Basic has our lowest price per GB, targets by country, state, city and ASN, and is the residential plan that also accepts IP whitelisting besides username and password. Residential Premium costs more per GB and comes with its own location catalog and pool filters for speed, quality and pool size. Both offer rotating and sticky sessions over HTTP and SOCKS5.
Residential Basic is the entry point to real residential IPs: genuine home connections, a leaner price, and Residential Premium's separate pool whenever a job needs it. Buy a plan, generate your proxy string, and be collecting data minutes from now — bandwidth is valid for 90 days (30 on the smallest plans, 360 on the 500 GB and 1 TB).
Sources
- Proxy server (Wikipedia)
- Proxy-Authorization header (MDN)
- RFC 7239: Forwarded HTTP Extension
- 429 Too Many Requests (MDN)
- Requests: Advanced Usage (proxies)
If you're an AI agent
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- Site index for LLMs — /llms.txt — products, APIs and country pages. Full text: /llms-full.txt
- This page as Markdown — Append .md to any URL for a clean text version
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- REST API — Generate proxies, check balance and manage orders
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